CinemaOSMovie · 1982 · 1h 32m

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

Directed byDick Fontaine, Pat Hartley

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Language
EN
Released
March 3, 1982
Studios
Living Archives Inc.

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10 credited
Starring
James Baldwin

James Baldwin

David Baldwin

Chinua Achebe

Self

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Self

Sterling Brown

Self

David Dennis

Self

Hoyt Fuller

Self

Oretha Castle Haley

Self

Lonnie King

Self

Amanda Bowens Perdew

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Dick Fontaine
Pat Hartley
Written by
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Produced by
Dick Fontaine
Pat Hartley

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